the, the, this is, eat up, your news live from berlin. russian officials say the bag, no teeth, you have any promotion is presumed dead in a plane crash. aviation authority said that the mercenary leader will challenge the kremlin was on a plane that came down after the party moscow with no survivor. and the bricks group of nations invites and 6 countries to join, including saudi arabia and ron. while all members publicly expressed support for expanding the block, there were divisions about how much,

how quickly the sarah kelly, welcome to the program. the leader of rushes, wagner, mercenary group is presumed to be dead. you're getting pre. goshen was one of let them hear putin's most important allies until he led a june rebellion against moscow's military leadership. russian authorities said that promotion was listed as a passenger on a flight that crashed in route from moscow to saint petersburg. this was all 10 people on board, the private chat were reported. they killed a telegram channel affiliated with wagner's also saying that pro goshen died in the crash along with his deputy. none of these reports however, have been independently verified and precautions. story is a remarkable one. he rose from being a food vendor to become vladimir pollutants, personal chef in the kremlin. his growing power as a mercenary boss,

became cleared during the country's invasion of ukraine until his ultimate clash with the heads of precious military. for a few hours, it looked like you had any pretty corrosion post. a real threat to russian president vladimir pretends hold on power the well watched in suspense is precautions vulcan in the us and re group seized control in real stuff on. don't one of southern rushes biggest cities, and then it fonts news towards the capital most, cuz then several hours later, for collusion, suddenly cooled off the operation. he said he wanted to prevent bloodshed and that his intent was never to overthrow the government right up until the mutiny precaution was seen as a loyal ally of the criminal need of to subbing a prison sentence for rubbery precaution worked his way up to become a successful restaurant in saint petersburg, and in him the nickname pretend chef,

eventually led to catering contracts to the russian government. his next business venture was quite different though. founding a private melisha known as the wagner group in 2014. the same year russia illegally onyx premier from ukraine precaution also established a media group including the troll factory, the united states and other countries accuse of trying to interfere in elections, soft rushes invasion if he crane salted precaution began hiring thousands of soldiers, including convicts to fight and bug me units aging the kremlin so effort. the perhaps biggest trial was taking the eastern ukrainian city of back moved, often months of fighting in which bushes regular army had been unable to prevail over ukraine. but his precaution found himself more and more in the spotlight. he used to rail against russia's military leadership and its conduct of the war.

including the accusation that was not provide in his mass and raised without munitions on our that used to gordon's feud with disability. and leadership escalated when he refused to that his fight to be put on the defense ministry come on. and so precaution notes to he called a much for justice. i mean, we came here to put an end to the disgrace of our country. this year is a 1st step. what we're doing is right. it's to save russia unless i see in moscow shopped loudly. may i please include it trees in a stop in the back, in the middle of a little. can you just let me do it? it could be 3, is any internal turmoil is a deadly threat to us, statehood for me to be to us as a nation domestic, this will get the most, this is a blow. so russia, so all people, but not from one of our actions to protect the fatherland from such a threat, if you did, you will be talking to the what the just which is nice me

a booted precaution left last of on don't to cheering crowds. but the weekend of kale should left to precarious future for himself and his balkan, the empire. the in the days that followed the president putin embrace to support his trying to protect the strength of to precautions, exploring the challenge to his room. or. and earlier i asked marina my ron, a defense analyst from kings college london. if she believes that promotion was actually killed in that plane crash. good morning, sir. well, it's very difficult because we don't really have any sort of verification. and if he is indeed the ad on this would have coined sided wisdom more than of general sort of beacon. so in terms of timing, it would be a sort of symbolic 2 months after the mutiny. and on the same days that the general

survey can, who was allegedly involved to, to some degree in the medium, or at least he had no lich has been demoted. and knowing, put in and how he treats his opponents. that wouldn't be surprising. however, what is interesting is that course and 2nd plate and apparently was safe. and what we know is that his name was on the passenger list, but we don't know if he was on the plane. and from the operation security perspective, traveling together was another high profile person on the same plane would seem very unlikely because progression wasn't stupid. and i think he knew exactly what the risks are. so then tell us, because i mean you're very familiar with the military situation and the way that it might operate there. if he really is dead, what sort of message do you think this sensed any putting rivals or military leaders and especially, you know, given that it,

these reports are happening and coinciding with the motion of so if you can, then you've also mentioned as well it will be a whole mark of put in to revenge because we have seen this before. um, when you we one put in use p. s. intelligent services such as a, b, c, r or the f us b to take out his opponents and in some cases he's poisonings. in some cases, those were more brazen in order to deter potential opponents from acting out against 14. and i think because for golfing organize this new to me and it was televised all over the world. everybody was watching so his dad is his dad has to be equally spectacular as to show who is still in power and that puts and will not tolerate any trees in the world. this loyalty. how about the wagner mercenaries themselves? because we saw this absolutely spectacular aborted mutiny. is there the potential

for those mercenaries who remain to make any further power moves including against regular russian troops, for example, as well of production was really popular amongst his own soldiers. so it was more like a family, he was very charismatic leader. and so i think if put in, made this move in, if he is indeed behind the face, the nation, he would have found somebody to replace a precaution, or at least he would have found the way to ensure that there wouldn't be any blow back from precautions. mercenaries, because that is a risk. it's a very well trained group of some 25000 fighters. so we're moving decapitating the wagner if we put potentially back fire. and we have seen was progression was able to do with those people or a fraction of those people as

a matter of fact. so i think that and the reason we're seeing it now is because putting has found a solution on how to main thing control of that group. but i think um, psychologically the supporters of precaution, i'm, it was in the military they, they might be upset, but i don't think they have the power to spend up or to organize and any sort of their own rebellion. so to say because everything is well controlled and this and a legit assess the nation is another display of what will happen if you actually do go against the regime. when you look at all of these moving parts of the reports that we have been seeing over the past 24 hours and just the general situation that you've also been seeing in the wake of the sales meeting, how do you predict that this will influence the fighting in ukraine as well. right now we,

we have seen that after precaution had withdrawn from you ukraine's that is the wagner group and nothing has really changed. and even during his new to me and it didn't really have any effect on what was happening on the battlefield. so at least from now, i don't foresee any changes besides, some of his fighters did indeed sign the contract with a ministry of defense, meaning that they will most likely be deployed to ukraine. again, that being said, of course, put in has potentially lost a very effective tool which could be used to solve very difficult tasks on the battlefield, that the regular military is not capable of doing so down the line. it might be something that would be missing and put into arson old, but right now i don't foresee any changes for c defense analysts, marina myron, thank you. as always for sharing that expertise, we appreciate it. thank you for having me. in other news,

the bricks group of nations has announced that it will expand its membership, as it's 5 members hope to boost their global influence. brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa will formally invite 6 additional members to join the economic alliance. at the start of 2024, south africa's president, still around the poster said that argentina, egypt, ethiopia, ron saudi arabia and united arab emirates, had been invited to join in the 1st phase of the expansion. the announcement came on the final day of the block summit in johannesburg. fix comments to the state. any of correspondence i offer as to how does ferguson has been following the press conference by the french leader. so we now have confirmation here. 6 countries have been invited to join the block, what details was were given but unfortunately they went, wasn't an opportunity to ask questions after that briefing. but what we do know is

that throughout the conference the breaks leaders have been talking about the need to get closer to africa. and i think with the addition of egypt and ethiopia, yeah. in particular, we can see that trained beginning egypt, for example, excuse me, is of africa's largest academy tied with nigeria. and ethiopia is also quite a muscular economy here on the, on the african continent, 100000000 people strong and also expanding into various areas. we see that also saudi arabia, which had actively been lobbying before this conference, is, is it being invited to the group along with the u, a. e. and we know that saudi arabia has been on somewhat of an active re branding a marketing campaign in various areas. buying up software plays here, but also speaking about an a growing the sort of a role as a potential tourist and investment destination. so with bricks inviting these

countries it's definitely can be seen as them trying to both to themselves. and as we heard some of the briefly the saying, speak as a voice for the south and speak as a new voice to the rest of the world. and what's the news regarding getting a common currency for breaks members to rival the us dollar and reduce western economic the dominance? because that, that's been a major effort as well. indeed to that has been a major if it's it seems that for now they won't be a new car and see, but the bricks, the does have decided that research needs to be done. they tossed the foreign ministers, ministers of the various countries. the finance ministers, excuse me, of the various countries to go in and look at the possibilities of either adopting a foreign kind c, o, o, o, one of the own currencies or coming up with a new currency. we know the brakes leaders have said that they are unhappy with the

way that things are unfolding at the moment. and they've accused other wisdom counterparts of trying to squeeze them out in a way and not being able to give enough room for emerging currencies to, to do the best. uh, there was obviously a subtle hint that when they speaking about the, this huge monic state, they're speaking about the united states, which currently does have the global dominance current seats. so that research will be done. and they said that there would be a report back by the mixed brakes. me to diane hawker in johannesburg. thank you. you're watching dw news, a reminder of our top story. russian authorities say that the head of the back to mercenary group was on a plane that crashed to killing everyone on board. a telegram channel link to wagner has reported that if get any promotions his debt, it comes 2 months after he loves a mutiny against russia as the military leadership of next doc film is

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